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It's not that I haven't been attentive, or I haven't had stuff to say, I just have no more ideas. Its true; the only thing I have left to do, besides gloat about my as of yet not quite finished conquest of checkers, but first, another edition of the Aug 05:15:13 5 AM news.

The threat that still rings in my ears was delivered with the following verbiage

I was lookin through some of Lorde Omlette's code today, seeing about porting his rdf fetcher to linux. The code is heavy on the system calls, and heavy on the being in C#, a language I've never really read anything about. It seems easy enough to read; not much different from C actually, but I couldn't make my way through the fn calls to even start to think about porting it. I think I might end up making a clone instead; It'd be easier. Hell, I could make a script in about 15 minutes that would accomplish the same (good old Linux and all of its nifty cmd line tools; wget and diff), but I think I'm going to use this agenda to learn a little about QT. I think I might change the tool too, to be more useful (boyaw!) and check more than rdf files; but this in itself might be misleading. I'll have to test various implementations first, and see what works.

A truly great quote gives rise to the inspiration to actually write an update with all of the crap that I've read about or done in the past few days. First, the quote..

Actually, the screens and official site call the game Unlimited Saga, but I don't really believe them. Its Seiken Densetsu Saga, or Unlimited Densetsu 5, or something. Anyway, its pretty, and I want to play it now.

Cleaning long and hard after I beat final fantasy I. Funny story, that was entertaining. Final Fantasy marathon part II: Final Fantasy II starts tomorow I guess.. although, it tried to start today.

The site design is new, but is it improved? Only time will tell.

That's the line I forgot that led me to great sorrow. Well, the sorrow wasn't that great, but the greatness, well that wasn't all to great either.

I'm in portugal. The trip has been great, only 1 week to go; but for some reason I feel like I've done nothing, and in many ways this feeling is due to the fact that I have indeed done nothing. For the first time I decided to stay home instead of go out and sight see or visit people or whatever, and I think for the first time since I started this vacation, it will seem and feel vacation-like.

The Korean mafia is back, and long live them.

Peace signs while exiting the airplane, a bullet in the head or so, water gate hotels or being jelly donuts didn't stop two of our most courageous presidents from getting their thang on, and the allmighty spoony one claiming my website doesn't have a valid layout won't be stopping me from doing just the same. In fact, This site does have a layout; its my brand new mozilla theme... theme. I call it modern. He calls it fascist or any number of other publicly renounced social, economic or political practices. I call him Jeremy, and I question his sexuality almost every day.

Got me "Frankenstein Girls will seem Strangely Sexy" today at best buy waiting for them to get our order for 5 air conditioners placed. This is quite possibly the best and most anticipated CD I have ever purchased.. and nobody in their right minds would buy it and not throw it the hell in the garbage.. I've never been accused of being in my right mind, though.

They have a second name too, and that name is Microsoft. Yeah, so intel and that other company are in the thing too.. And i really respect (and purchase religiously) from that other company too.. but I don't see the same potential for evil in them. Lets take a look at the scenario that stretches beyond the one presented elsewhere; the innability to install Linux because you do not have the appropriate rights.

Added a linux page to the machina section that outlines what I did to get slackware 8.1 working on the armada E500's that we got freshman year (in 2000). I'll update it as I install more software if it gives me problems or I think that I might want to remember to install said software again in the future. Its really all just a temp holder for my knowledge since I doubt that I would remember this crap I if i didn't run linux again for few months. This wasn't witty at all, I should be ashamed.

As far as my Linux woes go for today, tonights is a tale of triumph and uncertainty. I finaly got the makefile for XAnim to work by reading tons of readme's and fixing a bug in the newest version of X11 contained in one of its config files. Although its in one of the many readme documentations for XAnim, i think I'll write a quick script to fix the bug in X11 since it might create problems for future programs I might want to compile. Theres also the sound disabled or not enabled by default thing.. I'll write a script to take care of all of the problems I have with the default settings and then I guess reformatting wont really do much at all..

ARGH. Linux is such a headache. I spent half of the morning trying to get mplayer working, and when that looked like it was going to go nowhere (after alsa or asla or whatever failed miserably), i decided to give XAnim a shot. Failure! It wont even compile. At all... It compiles fine on like, everyone's machine but mine. I think when I install Linux it always leaves out a few important header and lib files so that I can never do anything that is supposed to be "easy".. one help file online said "Type "make xanim" and Voila! You're done!"... Thats right, I'm done trying to watch anything in linux. After the Divx player didn't play back movies properly (at least it compiled, installed, opened, and opened files!), the rest of these players never even get opened, one of them never installed. Its very irritating.. how the hell can i be missing Shell.h? And what about libasound.so.1.. its right fucking there.

When it's all said and done, maybe I wont remember gloating over a french person I vaguely know in the cups opening, although I probably will.. and maybe the thought that Portugal lost to USA 3 - 2 in the most humiliating performance, at least thus far in the cup, wont ever cross my mind again after they bury Korea in 3 days; although events could very well take a different path.. But what I definitely will remember is that it's not the great winners that have made this cup special, its the great losers. And in multiple ways.

Paul Demarco (of officeXP pirracy and goddamnit.html fame) and I were sitting on the couch tonight watching Jay Leno and his tonight show antics when I decided that I'd plug the cable in. The reception was a lot better and I mean, for a 32 inch TV; we kinda like the reception good. So we were chillin and such, and when a commercial came, I challenged my TV to see how many channels I could get. Well; it has apparently issued me my own challenge: "Get me working." Thats correct ladies and gentlemen, the damn thing has stopped working.

Ok; I admit it, damnit! Loudly! Even though nobody in the world likes them, I can't get enough of Mindless Self Indulgence. I don't know why other people don't like them.. I mean, I do know, but then again I don't know. Urine's voice (yes, the singer's last name is Euringer) screams a rangey goodness that I haven't heard from other bands.

School is over!

Im pretty lucky that I did as much work as I did when I made this site, or else i would never update it. I had some free time today, and just wandered around for 50 minutes. It was quite enjoyable. I have way too much on my mind to be at peace though; I'll be at peace by the end of the week; and I'll be at peace either in a happy way or in a sad way; but peace is peace. I guess im a little lucky in that I have insurance in the matters, and I would suppose along the same lines that I am the only person who knows what the hell I'm talking about. Its all good, though.

So much stuff to write about; so much time to write it... so little drive T_T.

I've been sluggish with the updates lately. I don't know what it is; sometimes I just feel like im moving at a slower pace than the rest of the world. I don't really understand what I'm supposed to be all about; or myself or pretty much anyone else. Maybe im not supposed to understand. All I know is that Music has remained one of the biggest parts of my life that has kept me sane since I started listening to it and playing it. Maybe I'll get on track before finals; actually, hopefully I will. I'm going to go for a walk sponsored by Zah Pirrows. またらいしゅ ^_^;

I recently (last night ish) spoke to someone I was good friends with back in high school. I guess that makes two whole people who I've talked too since high school ended, from my high school. Talking to someone who knew you quite some time ago really puts in perspective how much you've changed since you've seen them. It also makes me wonder; do I seem like some faceless, online entity now. We had a lot of good times (even worked together), but I've changed pretty drastically since we knew eachother. And oddly enough, I think this website makes all of those changes clear.

I took it for a ride tonight for the first time ever on my "new" TV. It was pretty interesting; but the game's fun factor was killed by the fact that I have a calc3 test tomorow. I am still pretty unsure as to how to do 2 of the most likely 5 or so types of problems on the test; but luckily enough they are the 2 problems that I did lots of homework for; so a quick refresher should be all that Is needed.

Before I go to sleep (and after I watched some Kodocha, I need to express my plans to make some sort of horror, black and vermillion themed site; much in the vein of horrorish hellsing images. I decided that it'd be a challenge to try to adhere to that theme but not use any cliche's; in fact, its almost impossible to not use cliche's in the first place. My puchiko theme (which will be hosted here very soon) is pretty cliche; but I still like the way it works.

I have installed cygwin and, because im hopelessly addicted to the bash shell, will now be using it almost exclusively for everything, because I am a whore. Thats right, Im a whore. I've tabbed most of Kim Deal; as soon as I figure out the solo, the tab is going up. I've made a pillows directory but thats pretty much it.. I need to figure out how to make the header mutable with lots of pages; the way I've done it now is probably not good; and I should really figure out some other way that doesn't require the keeping of many background files. Oh well; it was a quickie job anyway.

The Pillows just love to confuse the hell out of me with bass and guitar doing different things and sounding like the same instrument all the time. Its gotten to the point where I don't appreciate it; but of course i still appreciate the music.

As apparently was a little known fact previously to this semester, I like playing the guitar. And as such, sometimes I feel its my duty to provide tabulature where there simply is none. In this case, its not for public domain, but more for a circle of friends (or maybe even just 1), and for myself; to preserve and teach.. how righteous of me.

You know, Its a little known fact that sometimes things go exactly how you would have planned them. This is most true with the X TV series.

A3k; prevayer of the world famous "Beyond the L" quote which so gracefully sits atop my rather short list of worthy away message quotes, was over being addicted to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night last night. That little excursion; chillin with someone who I don't see that often; has made me realize that I need a constant flow of new people. Freshman year was great most likely because it got me out of the rut of knowing the same people for 13 years in a row. Now that its died down and im sheltered from dorm life; a vehicle which facilitates social.. ism.. I've gone back to my old close minded sarcastic ways. I think that in order to keep true to myself and in some ways to the world is to meet new people. I've been really terrible at that, but recently I've been doing things which facilitates hanging out with people who I at least don't know very well. My Brusah, and!, my sistah! I need to once again keep it real. And it all comes down to just being myself and doing what I want to do.

Quiet and dark is never good. I liked today's PA because I kinda felt the same way. After Sony released the PS2 and it did so well and then the X-box looked like it was going to be an ass kicker of a machine, I kept on saying never rule Nintendo out. Although I've pretty much decided to not buy a game cube, I have played one (finaly) and i must admit that it is in every way a next gen system. And while its demographic doesn't exactly include me, I think that there will still be some games worth while for it (SSB:M).. and maybe some in the future (Square Nintendo Sega and Namco making some crazy crossover RPG that uses the GBA and Cube together? The quad force baby)..

Konnichiwa. I have regretful news to post for all anime fans that live in the new york city area, and I believe there are quite a few of you. Anime Expo New York has decided that AXNY was going to be a one time deal. What does this mean? The implications of this startling developement quite obviously lend themselves towards the following list of conclusions, and although; not excluding that which is excluded, there are other possibilities, said exclusions have slim probabilities at best. Now that you are confused; the list.

My little is w3c compliant; is yours?

Starting off the day with the express intent of going back to bed for 25 minutes is not my Idea of a successful begining. I have a test today that will in all likelihood make me ask myself why I even try; of course, once I recall my GPA from last semester I think I'll find the answer pretty quickly, but at the current rate of sickness, I'm not so sure that I'll actually care. Hell, even penny arcade is sick today. And tired; I'm sick and tired. Screw this im going to go finish studying and then head to class with my glass-o-milk breakfast. I hope to upload something of worth within the next few days; but as I said before look forward to lots of new "content" in the next week.

And now that most of you are lost, I'll just make another little link to the Stevens tech anime club webpage so that the rest of this might make a little more sense. And as for the title, it's questioning whether or not Love Hina Again ep 2 (the new love hina OVA) is good or not. And if you don't get that, you don't even have to bother with the next paragraph, as if you had to bother at all.

I know, i can't direct the X or develope the kit, or do anything of the sort with any of those words in a similar context, but the point was that I wanted to try. And this want completely screwed me for a good ammount of time.

I spent a good portion (read: all) of today morphing my site from a hulking pile of deprecated tabular shit to what it is now, something that looks almost exactly the same, but is not a hulking pile of deprecated tabular shit. And who cares? No one; the opera users get to snicker that I had to work hard to create a similar effect that is easy to create in IE, and the mozilla users snicker even though their browser sucks; and K-Meleon losers cry because they are just using mozilla anyway. So what happens? My website works with everyones browser, and nobody's happy about it.

People who know me know that I am a junky when it comes to optical storage (cdrom) technology. Starting about 4 and a half or 5 years ago, I've been burning Cd's with the increasing quickness; starting on an old 2x Yamaha and 2x acer; skipping up in the world to a HP 8200i, which was one of the best drives of the era and in my humble opinion the best 4x drive (It was a Sony rebrand, and the last good HP drive), then going with the Teac 12x writer instead of the plextor, and less than a year later buying a LiteON 24x monster, which is still in service. (all of these drives were internal IDE for a PC, no USB no SCSI).

Often in life, the inadequacy of others to form coherent thought results in fun for me! Take this, for example..

The stupidity of some people just never ceases to amuse me, even when the stupidity was a few weeks or months ago. Even still, this story is like something you think had happened, or you think might have happened, but never expected to see reported from an actual news source. Its the kind of story you tell your friends when you're bullshitting at approximately this time in the morning, "yo man this dude suffocated between this chicks breasts at a strip joint".. you never expect it to actual be reality.

A two liter of mountain dew purchased via a friendly roomate facilitated me towards actually putting a small sample of what I want to put in the machina section. Truth be told, I would have named it tech, but then it'd be totally ripping off wei, and I figured I'd be latin about it. Anyway; I saw that section on his site and thought wow what a great Idea; a section of a website besides the "news" which is never anything in particular, that doesn't just sit and asphixiate on the server, never to be updated after its origional conception.

Why is midtown diner so convenient at 3 in the morning; and why do my clocks always seem like they are an hour ahead. I think I will ponder this mystery tomorow.

While watching some anime ironically entitled Tenamonya Voyagers, I decided to continue building the script to see if i could work the indexing in like I wanted to. I did a lot of manipulation on the origional HTML manually, and on some of the extra save files that I make (of different parts of the html), so that I had a clear image in my mind of what the source for the result I wanted would look like; and then I coded it from there. This has been pretty fun; I hope that it all works according to plan the first time I do it. After all, theres no reason why it shouldn't.

My news update script is finished. At least, with this post as a test, it will be finished. I know that this is a lot of garbage for testing, and I might get rid of this post or replace it with something else later.

I actually finished the basic structure of the site; although I still have some greater plans for this Rant section; kinda want to make it act like the links section in the way of internal link indexing; so that not necessarily anyone else, but more myself, could reach different posts to see just what the hell I was thinking.

Because I lack any and all skills, and I like the format of the SIT anime club page news section, I'm going to eventually try to add (into the script of course) functionality that will index all of the dates times and put a name's on them so you can access each post from a link at the top. This might be more applicable to do for just once a day; since adding a post is so simple I'd probably write a few small rants rather than one large one per day, but the only problem is by doing that the script would become vastly more complex.

The spacing should be fixed after this tweak.

As the title of this news post suggests; the script seems to be totally working. I'll tweak it a little so that it creates some base files for me to work off of; it was a bit of a hack getting the news title in there working; and once I have that I should have a very easy time writing these updates.